INSTRUCTORS

Sarah is Tarlington Training’s Artistic Director and a Senior Instructor with twenty years experience as a professional film, television and stage actor. She’s also been with us for over ten years.

Her acting credits include principal roles on “Cold Squad”, “X-Files”, “The Marshal”, “Lonesome Dove”, “Danger Bay” and “Northwood”. Sarah has won three acting awards: the TV Week Award, YTV National Achievement Award In Acting and the Los Angeles Youth In Film Award for her lead role in “The Girl From Mars”.

Sarah holds a BC Provincial Instructor Diploma. She has studied at both New York’s Circle In The Square Theatre School and the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia

Behind the camera, Sarah has directed two short films – “Just Like Everybody Else” for the Vancouver School Board and “Being Elizabeth” for the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vancouver. She also teaches acting in elementary and secondary school classrooms as an Artist-In-Residence for the Vancouver School Board.

Trevor has been working professionally in film, television and theatre for the past fifteen years. His roots began at the Vancouver Youth Theatre where he toured nationally and internationally. He has appeared in numberous television series and pilots in Vancouver, including "DaVinci's Inquest", "The 4400", "Psych", "The Commish", "The Odyssey", "Sliders", "Viper", "Higher Ground", "Rocky Times" and "These Arms Of Mine".

Trevor's feature film credits include "Scary Movie", "Final Destination 2", "MVP: Most Valuable Primate", "Angels In The Endzone" and "This Boy's Life" He has appeared on screen with Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino and Matthew McConnaughey.

He is also a talented writer and film producer with three shorts completed and his first feature currently in development. Trevor has been teaching at Tarlington Training for five years and is one of our senior instructors.

Richard, in his teens, was one of the most successful young actors in Canada, earning the Los Angeles Youth In Film award for his co-starring role as Alex on "The Black Stallion" with MIckey Rooney.

Now, as a working adult professional actor, Richard is able to draw on his experiences as a young actor to successfully guide his students as they study the craft. On the big screen, Richard has a dozen credits to his name, including roles in "Ghost Rider" with Nicolas Cage, "R.V." with Robin Williams and "Alive!" with Ethan Hawke.

Richard has over twenty-five television credits, including nearly every major production in the lower mainland.

You've seen him on "DaVinci's Inquest", "Dead LIke Me", "Psych", "Saved" and "Stargate". He also starrred in forty-four episodes of the series "Breaker High". To top it all off, Richard is also one of the busiest and most in-demand voice-over actors in the country. You've herad him in "Firehouse Tales", "Galaxy Angel", "X-Men" and "Inuyasha".

He has been a senior instructor at Tarlington Training for ten years.

A film and stage actor, screenwriter and acting instructor whose career spans almost two decades in Canada and England, Misli has appeared in David Mamet's "Speed The Plow" and spent two yeras with the British Asian Theatre Company. Her film credits include "South Of The Border", "Secret Weapon" and "Boeing Boeing". Misli spent two years mentoring in playwriting, acting and producing for young people at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre.

Turning her sights to writing professionally, she penned the critically acclaimed "Raj From Edmonton", a one-person show that toured England with over 100 performances. Other writing credtis are a commissioned play "I'll Die With My Gold On" for Asian Theatre Initiative in England, "The Silver Touch", in development for television for London Films and "I'll Spell That For You", a novel that is a work in progress. She also writes poetry.

Maria was trained in New York and Vancouver, and has experience in film, television and theatre. her stage credits include Doris in "Same Time Next Year", for which she received a CTC Best Actress nomination, Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and Beverly in "Shadow Box", for which she won a Theatre BC Best Actress award.

Maria's television credits include "Cold Squad", "Romeo", "Saved" and the Lifetime movie of the week, "The Stranger Game". She will also appear in the feature film, "The Martian Child", with John Cusack, which is scheduled for release in late 2007 and she just finished filming "Sheltered Life", which is headed to this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Maria directed her first play this Spring; a production of "Marvin's Room" for Stage 43 in Coquitlam.

Nicole LaPlaca's credits include the feature films "John Tucker Must Die", "The Lizzie McGuire Movie" and the Canadian award-winning film "Protection" (nominated for 9 Leo Awards). This year, she was featured in Ross Weber's "Mount Pleasant" with Kelly Rowan and Ben Ratner.

Nicole's television creditts include "Supernatural", "renegadepress.com", "Romeo", "The Stranger Beside Me", "Dead Zone", "2gether" and "Higher Ground".

Nicole was nominated for a Leo award for her performance in the short film "Beachbound". As well as acting, Nicole is a professional dancer.

This is Nicole's third year teaching at Tarlington Training at our studios in Maple Ridge and Langley.

Kristie is an alumni of Tarlington Training, She has been a working actor for the past 10 years, in film, television, and on stage. Currently she is a series regular on the new Global comedy, “About A Girl”. She also originated and starred as “Sophie” (the lead role) in the US national tour of the hit Broadway show, “Mamma Mia!”.

Kristie has guest starred on numerous television shows. Her credits include “The 4400”, “Psych”, “Supernatural”, “Masters Of Horror”, “Reefer Madness”, “Dark Angel”, and “Saved”. She made her feature film debut in “The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants”.

Kristie has been seen around the stages of Vancouver as Zaneeta in “The Music Man” (Vancouver Playhouse), Chava in “Fiddler On The Roof” (RCMT & TUTS), Diana Barry in “Anne Of Green Gables” (Gateway), Fall Down Girl in “Oklahoma” (TUTS) and “Somewhere In The World” for the Charlottetown Festival’s Young Company, in PEI. She can also be heard on the original cast recording.